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doesn't compile after 5889

doesn't compile after 5889. Thanks Rjwilmsi 12:19, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

rev 5896 —Reedy 16:02, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

TryGetArticleText / attempted to save a wrong page

After calling TryGetArticleText an "attempted to save a wrong page" error occurs on save since TheSession.Page.Title is now the talk page, not the main article. A call to TryGetArticleText should not change the open page. Example: Alex Glasgow with genfixes on. Rjwilmsi 13:37, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

rev 5897 —Reedy 16:01, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

help me with 5910

So after 5910 I get a NRE just before AWB fills in the new date statistic, though it's fine in memory. Can't work it out for the life of me. Rjwilmsi 01:51, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Needed to sync that change to the Kingbotk plugin. Designer won't open for me on SharpDevelop so please check the field positions for me. Thanks Rjwilmsi 02:21, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Question on BLP policy

Hi Reedy, as you have tagged Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi with the Biography project template, I assume that you are taking an interest in issues related to Wikipedias policies on biographies. I was wondering why there is a difference between articles on living persons and articles on deceased persons. (There is a small section on bios of deceased persons on WP:BLP.) As the families of deceased persons may be as much adversely affected by any gossip that is peddled on articles about deceased persons, I was wondering why there this distinction is being made in the WP policy. Can you point me to any prior discussions about this question? Regards.  Cs32en  21:41, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

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Job for a bot

Can you bot tag Category:Gaelic games and it's sub categories with {{GaelicGamesProject}} Gnevin (talk) 17:54, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Any class/importance? —Reedy 21:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
No WP:GAA doesn't have the man power to assign class or importance Gnevin (talk) 01:42, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
I can do it for you. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:45, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Gnevin (talk) 01:47, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
4,536 articles loaded. I am starting right now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:25, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

AWB PIE!

File:Pie.jpeg

For releasing AWB 5 and for all the effort to fix all the crazy bugs I 've been reporting for months has given you a fresh pie! Pies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a piping hot pie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Bon appetit! Magioladitis (talk) 22:45, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Spread the tastiness of pies by adding {{subst:GivePie}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

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Problem with AWB creating an 'Api.php' article

Hi Reedy,

I've been trying to use AWB to auto-append categories to the pages of a Mediawiki wiki for a game I play, but I'm getting some strange results. Logging in, making the page list and configuring the edits goes fine, but once I click 'Save', something unintended happens. Instead of saving the changed article X to article X, it saves it to an article titled 'Api.php'. See Api.php for an example. The actual API for this wiki is located here; at almost the same url except for the lower case a.

I tried this yesterday with the last development version as well as today with 5.0, both with the same result. Do you think this could be due to the configuration of the wiki, or is it a bug? I'm really hoping to solve this problem as AWB could be very convenient for this project. Thanks in advance for your trouble. Regards, Junuxx (talk) 01:07, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

At a quick glance, this would seem to be a config issue om your wiki. If you notice on wikipedia and alike, they use /wiki/Title for the titles, but api, editing and such use /w/index.php and /w/api.php —Reedy 07:45, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
So if I understand this correctly, this could be solved if these php files are moved to www.paradoxian.org/w/? Or is the articles being in /wiki/ as crucial? Junuxx (talk) 16:23, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
IIRC, the files are physically in /w, but then a re-write rule is needed to make them look tidier and appear to be in /wiki. See mw:Manual:Short_URL —Reedy 16:28, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

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6093 – removal of txtedit.disable

I'd specifically added in the txtedit.disable and .enable wrapped around the highlightallfind() or whatever it is since without this, it causes the edit box focus to jump around while performing the highlighting. My solution may have been crappy though. Not sure if you removed those two lines with specific knowledge of that. Rjwilmsi 02:13, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

It was only used in one of the 2 calls... If it's needed/wanted, it should be done in the method so both calls use it. —Reedy 17:44, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

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Interested?

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Apache HTTP Server#Making improvements. andyzweb (talk) 03:18, 31 January 2010 (UTC) (Using {{Please see}})

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support non-en langCode for unit tests

If I use Variables.SetProject within a unit test to change the langCode it causes exceptions running the unit tests, even if I set it back again at the end of the unit test function. I have a local hack working: add this to Variables.cs and then call it instead (set and re-set to en at end): 

public static void SetProjectLangCode(string langCode)
{
    LangCode = langCode;
}

Is it okay to commit this? If not we need some other way to support non-en unit tests e.g. for rev 6190 and others. Thanks Rjwilmsi 20:02, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

It'd need to be #if DEBUG... Though, i'm sure the project change used to work. —Reedy 23:56, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
rev 6193 We can always change if we later come up with a better idea. Thanks Rjwilmsi 10:57, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

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Chilean people

Would you mind to take a look at the article Chilean people since it is has been constantly under attack for months? Dentren | Talk 15:59, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Protected for 6 months. —Reedy 12:26, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

AWB horizontal diff scrolling

Any ideas about Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature_requests#Avoid_stretching_the_diff_area -- actually quite annoying, and I couldn't work out what the fix would be? Thanks Rjwilmsi 16:41, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

It'd be a HTML fix.. I'd suspect. I'm not familiar either, but I know a couple of MW dev's that may be able to help. —Reedy 12:34, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

AWB and Linux

Since this is more of a dream than a feature request I thought it didn't need to be on the AWB page yet. AWB sounds phenomenal, but I don't love Wikipedia enough to use Windows again and I've never had any luck making the user-unfriendly WINE do anything at all. Since it's all open source, what kind of people would it take to develop a Linux version of AWB? You tell me what to look for and I'll do my darndest to find people that could do it. Sound fair?--otherlleft 12:53, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Haha. TBH, you could probably nearly just rebuild the GUI in Mono to get a Linux version. Between Mono and Wine, it's getting closer and closer (to some extents, even usable without using windows), just it's not there. The only thing is, if we were going to do a Linux build, we'd want to keep the source code as common as possible so that it's not doubling the maintenance. —Reedy 16:31, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
AWB is already quite usable under Wine. I'm working on updating the documentation over Wine operation. Rjwilmsi 10:27, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Well if I ever figure out Wine I'm there. I can't figure out the first task, installing a program it can run for me - I'm part of the new generation of Linux users who runs it because it keeps his computer alive, not because he actually wants to look under the hood! But thank you for your responses!--otherlleft 13:41, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

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6256 for review – List<Match> vs MatchCollection

For rev 6256 I had to change GetTemplates to return a List<Match> rather than a MatchCollection as I had to build up the list of matches, and couldn't then see how to still return a MatchCollection. Is there a way to cast a List<Match> to a MatchCollection to avoid unnecessarily changing the return type? If you can tell me I can change back the return type and tidy up. Thanks Rjwilmsi 21:09, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

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AWB ProcessPage threading

The lack of threading when running AWB processing (i.e. pressing start button) means that the GUI hangs while processing a page. Any chance you could thread that? Rjwilmsi 20:39, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Obtain "What redirects here"

Hi, I ask you after this call. In short, I want to create the list "What redirects here" in the method's plugin "ProcessArticle". Also, I use it.wiki. Can you help me? Thanks--B3t (talk) 12:02, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Also, if possible, you could publish the latest SVN Snapshots. Thanks--B3t (talk) 16:52, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Snapshot up. Try, creating a new instance of WikiFunctions.Lists.Providers.RedirectsListProvider —Reedy 23:53, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for snapshot, But I have a problem.--B3t (talk) 09:58, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

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AWB mono build

I've documented the two remaining errors on building AWB under Mono at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Mono_and_Wine#Building_AWB. Any ideas on the errors? Thanks Rjwilmsi 13:04, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

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6435

I made rev 6435 to fix AWB redirect handling following your API changes. Please check it's correct. Thanks Rjwilmsi 18:13, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

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possible API bug to report to MW

We may have an API bug to report to MW – [1] will you take a look? Rjwilmsi 10:12, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

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New snapshot please

Ping. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:51, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

IMHO the protected pages bug is rather a serious problem, and merits a 5.0.3 release. Rjwilmsi 17:54, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
The change isn't in any release, so shouldn't cause any long term problems. And although it may be broken, It doesn't cause any harm. —Reedy 19:05, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

RegEx

How do you say in RegEx if you want to find: Word1 and Word2 and Word3? Regards, SunCreator (talk) 19:51, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

(Word1|Word2|Word3) or Word[1-3] —Reedy 21:08, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I tested (Word1|Word2|Word3), it doesn't work. It returns false positives, i.e when Word1 or Word2 or Word3 is matched. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 22:03, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
What exactly do you want to do? Do you want to skip if these 3 words are present? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:15, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I have a set of Special:Export data and using the AWB databases scanner I want to find articles of Chess players who are living. AWB uses Regex and so it's a matter of entering a suitable expression, but I don't know how to do a logical AND. Put simply I want to match when 'Chess' AND 'Category:Living people' is found in an article. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 23:37, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Custom module? Not sure how you'd do an and in regex.
Skip = !(ArticleText.Contains("string1") && ArticleText.Contains("string2"));

—Reedy 23:03, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

RegEx in AWB does not understand '&&' nor the '!', pity. Even a 'NOT' would work to solve the problem, because with a 'NOT' operator combined with an 'OR' you can make an 'AND' Regards, SunCreator (talk) 23:16, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
I know two ways to do that, either simply by spelling out the permutations
(Word1.*?Word2.*?Word3|Word1.*?Word3.*?Word2|Word2.*?Word1.*?Word3|Word2.*?Word3.*?Word1|Word3.*?Word1.*?Word2|Word3.*?Word2.*?Word1)
or, more manageable and faster, with lookahead
(?=.*?Word1)(?=.*?Word2)(?=.*?Word3).*
Amalthea 14:52, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Thank you Amalthea, I noticed that (?=.*?chess) (?=.*?living) works to some degree in that it finds matches(Jesse Kraai), but it misses others(Ashot Nadanian) that I think should appear. 15:31, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Probably due to non-singleline mode. Not sure if you can turn it on whereever you input those regexes, try:
^(?=[\s\S]*?chess)(?=[\s\S]*?living)
Works for me when I try it with javascript.
Amalthea 15:56, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Whaw, not only does that work. It works really fast :) Regards, SunCreator (talk) 16:07, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
^(?=[\s\S]*?chess)(?=[\s\S]*?living)(?=[\s\S]*?people) Works great! Regards, SunCreator (talk) 16:15, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

I didn't say mine was regex ;). —Reedy 16:36, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

My apology. I haven't explored the word of custom module in AWB yet. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 16:48, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

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New release?

The Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs/Archive_15#AWB_not_loading_page_content_of_protected_pages bug is a critical one. It may result to page blanking if editors are not careful. I suggest a new release to disactivate the older version. Your opinion? -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:13, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

It should only be a problem in SVN builds. So, it shouldn't be necessary. AFAIK, the redirect overhaul borked it. So... It's not been on a general release —Reedy 20:14, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
We can change snapshots to 5.0.2.2 then and disactivate 5.0.2.1 only. How come you are not on IRC? -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:16, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
That I would go for. Dissertation is in tomorrow. IRC just provides more procrastination, so I've had an enforced break. Should be back on at the weekend. —Reedy 20:20, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Cheers. Now we need a snapshot :) (some people are never satisfied) -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:53, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
One up built using VS2010... —Reedy 22:06, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

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WP:AWB/T is very slow in opening

Hi, I am entering the details in your talk page regarding WP:AWB/T which is very slow when I try opening it. All other subpages of AWB open very quickly. Initially, I thought it might be my browser issue. But I tried both IE and Firefox in all subpages of AWB. Also all other articles of Wikipedia open very quickly.

Pls suggest if this is an issue. As I could not open the Typos page, I am entering the details here for your help. --Thaejas (talk) 17:11, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

WFM fine in chrome. Though, depending on your connection.... It is nearly 300kB.. —Reedy 21:35, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

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Nudge

Can you respond here? Thanks.--B3t (talk) 08:58, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

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AWB taking typos from a different page

When I use AWB (version 5.0.2.0) Typos on runescape.wikia.com, it seems to take the list of Typos from the Wikipedia list of typos rather than the one on RuneScape Wiki, found here. How do I make it so it pulls the typos from the correct location? 24.41.55.233 (talk) 18:23, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

[2] - It is loading it from there, as it's in English. Not using the "wikia" option in AWB for project, and just doing it as a custom would fix it, though, isn't really ideal. I can't really remember if on wikia it's just the central checkpage, or each wiki can use it's own too. Will have an investigate. As it should really load the local typo page IF it exists... —Reedy 17:09, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
We actually load both. Simplest fix, will be, if you add a typo style thing on the checkpage <!--[Tt]ypos:RuneScape:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos-->, I'll make it use that in preference to the latter. —Reedy 17:19, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
rev 6615 —Reedy 17:37, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the CheckPage (that we're using, at least) is a central one. What did that revision do? Thank you so much for this. 24.41.55.233 (talk) 22:09, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
You still have a central checkpage. It's not for User management, but for messages, and some config stuff such as this. So... If you create one, stick the typo thing on, and then grab a snapshot >= 6615, or wait for the next release (due soon), it'll work =) —Reedy 22:11, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
So I add <!--[Tt]ypos:RuneScape:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos--> to RuneScape:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage? Sorry, I'm just making sure. By the way, is there any faster way to de-link besides looking at the alerts and clicking to de-link each individual one? Thanks very much. 24.41.55.233 (talk) 23:01, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
<!--Typos:RuneScape:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos-->, sorry. Errm. Not sure.. We have a delinker plugin, for something... —Reedy 10:08, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

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AWB

River's Toolserver account seems to have a problem; could you take a look here to see what it's about? Cheers. Rodhullandemu 01:54, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

I think they've been over zealous with this round of renewals. Considering river is a paid/hired admin by WMF DE for the toolserver. To quote irc
<AryehGregor> I like how more than half the roots' regular (non-r-prefixed) accounts are expired.

I'm guessing that it's related —Reedy 01:56, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Doesn't help us considering AWB permissions, since {{userlinks}} doesn't give the breakdown of contribs; can {{AWBUser}} be fixed to point to Soxred's stats? Cheers. Rodhullandemu 02:05, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Just edit the template page? What's the link? —Reedy 02:18, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
For me, it's http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pc/Rodhullandemu but I am not so clued up on template syntax at all, and particularly not at 03:22 local time, after a long day. I tried, but it didn't work. In the meantime, I've granted access to some pending requests. Cheers. Rodhullandemu 02:24, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Lol. Ditto on the time here. I've just been having to fix an NFS server. Much fun. Had an exam 12 hours ago. /joy —Reedy 02:24, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
[3]. Bedtime me thinks —Reedy 02:28, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Brilliant! Thanks. I'll fix the AWB Talk page now. Rodhullandemu 02:33, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

AWB Problem

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5348/awb.png

This happened and I can't seem to fix it. The bottom part of the window is cut off. Resizing the window, minimising, maximising then restoring; nothing! I've tried to remove every trace of the AWB, using search and delete (can't think of another way), but after re-downloading, it's the same. I've tried to change the screen resolution but only lower (can't go higher). In no can I get to the lower options. I'll show you the whole picture.

Restored (The not minimised or maximised window): http://img594.imageshack.us/i/awb2.png/

Maximised: http://img227.imageshack.us/i/awb3.png/

I heard you were that you're an on the AWB, can you help? 97.120.237.91 (talk) 05:59, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

What resolution is it? —Reedy 12:20, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Hidden categories

This shouldn't happen. Probably caused by hidden categories. It was working till now. Something may happened to CategoriesOnPageNoHiddenListProvider. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:44, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Chamber ballet is in non-hidden Category:Stubs, so list provider is probably fine. Is it just that all more specific stubs add articles to hidden categories, whereas the top-level {{stub}} does not? Rjwilmsi 17:49, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
They all(?) produce non-hidden categories. I am confused. I though we were looking only for categories in the form [[Category:foo]]. I am pretty sure that we were tagging stubs as uncategorised. I can't find any policy pro or against that. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:57, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Two ways to move:

  • Don't tag if abut to tag as stub
  • Don't count stub cats and always tag if catcount - stubscats = 0

I ll have to think a bit about it.

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Just for the record:

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AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#No_upper_case_in_default_sort

I think Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#No_upper_case_in_default_sort is due to rev 6666. Happily you did it after the main release. Rjwilmsi 07:38, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit: unit tests broken. Guess you forgot to run them. Rjwilmsi 07:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
rev 6667 Temporary fix. Rjwilmsi 08:12, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Find and replace

How do you have your customised find and replace happen after the typos have been applied? 97.120.227.149 (talk) 08:31, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

If you set the find & replace to be after general fixes, they will also be after typo fixes. Rjwilmsi 09:35, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Regex Help

I need to find: 

|edible = No
|

and replace with: 

|

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AWB SVN

Sorry for the pester and I know you have been busy but I was wondering if you could possibly do an SVN update for AWB. There have been quite a few good changes lately and I would like to incorporate them into my edits. Thanks and let me know if you need anything from me. --Kumioko (talk) 13:33, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Done, sorry for the delay. Been a bit busy IRL —Reedy 13:48, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
No problem and thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 14:07, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

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:0

Reedy. Oh my. :totally appropriate Wikipedia hug: --mboverload@ 07:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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descriptions for AWB library - wikifunctions.dll

Sorry for a such crossposting, but can you help me to find any extended description for wikifunctions.dll? The short one unfortunately is not enough for me. Now I'm trying to look at AWB source code. Thanks for any help.

Besuglov.S cont / talk 18:42, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

It's also very out of date. Asking specific questions would probably help me yield more results for you. —Reedy 18:43, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for quick reply. It was too late as I discover source code. I think now I can handle this. Besuglov.S cont / talk 19:09, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

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Help Me

Hey Friend you can help me,is why so:When go write appears Script Line.net what is it ? 189.68.21.155 (talk) 16:25, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

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Question

I've seen that you have an AWB, and so I have a question:which file is the file where username must in?--93.223.170.90 (talk) 14:53, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

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AWB - approval protocol at other projects (sw)

Just archived, or am I in the right place? Anyway, I had a question about AWB and I thought I would just copy my original message to Rodhullandemu who advised me to ask here:

Hi, I am AWB-approved at en and Administrator at sw (Swahili Wikipedia). I would like to know if there is someone at AWB who can answer a few questions we have about AWB approval (at sw). 1=As extant sw administrator, I received AWB en approval and was able to begin AWB editing at sw without any sw approval process. Is this because of my administrator status at sw, or do we lack an approval mechanism? 2=An sw user now is seeking AWB approval at en or de, I do suppose that he/she will successfully attain it, but my question is, do we at sw have the means to approve a future AWB user or will he/she be automatically enabled to use AWB at sw (due to some lack of an approval process)? 1+2=In other words, do we need to change anything here at sw in regards to approving AWB use, or do we already have the means to do so?; or do we lack the means to do so? 3=If there's someone else at AWB who is knowledgeable about these issues, I would be glad to talk to them instead, I chose this talk page from approval list 'Requests for registration' at the check page (Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage). On the other hand, if you can help us with some information, I would sure appreciate it. Thanks. Mr Accountable (talk) 15:31, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Users with the Admin bit are automatically approved for AWB here, and I assume this applies on other wikis. As for your other questions. I could not honestly offer an authoritative answer but User:Reedy wrote AWB and is its technical guru, so I would advise asking him. Cheers. Rodhullandemu 15:39, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
++Am I as SW Administrator able to approve a user for AWB?? Mr Accountable (talk) 16:40, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
If you can edit Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage you can approve users on en-wiki – though there are approval rules listed on that page. For approval on other wikis: if you have page Project:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage then the rules there are used. If you have no such page all users are approved. Rjwilmsi 17:59, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I am not able to edit this en-wiki page, but I did find the sw-wiki AWB Check page, and it did work, we were able to successfully approve a user for AWB use; AWB successfully downloaded and now in use. Thanks very much. Mr Accountable (talk) 23:25, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Your input request re running out of typo scan articles

Please comment here. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 11:47, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

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w/e

w/e --MZMcBride (talk) 07:32, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Whaddup? —Reedy 07:36, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Tired. And making trouble. You? --MZMcBride (talk) 07:41, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm in LA mofo. I'll come abuse you on IRC —Reedy 07:49, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

AWB

Hi Reedy

I'm trying to download the most recent version of AWB. It appears to download ok but when I go to open it on WinZip all it says is that AWB has encountered an error and needs to close. It won't go any further. I tried to download the new version too using the updater but when I re-opened AWB afterwards it kept opening the old version! I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Winzip and no difference.

I've checked on my pc and I definitely don't have the version installed that is needed. Tried deleting the old version first to see if that makes any difference and nothing. I also tried downloading the snapshot thing on the project page and still the same.

Somebody did suggest that I manually extract the files but in all honesty I wouldn't have a clue where to begin with that. I'm not that technically minded :)

Before I give up, do you have any other suggestions? --5 albert square (talk) 23:02, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

You do need to extract it. If you run it from the zip (rather than extracting), it won't be able to find all the files it needs, and whinge like that. —Reedy 05:42, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry Reedy, do you know how to run it from WinZip? Like I say any help is very much appreciated as I do love AWB! --5 albert square (talk) 20:00, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

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Snapshot / New release

Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser#Could_someone_update_the_SVN_please. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:03, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

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API, AWB and selfredirects

Wikipedia_talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#BrokenXmlException_in_ApiEdit.Open_.28self-redirect.29. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:42, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

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SVN Update for AWB

I know that AWB is pending a new release soon but would it be possible to get an SVN update. There have been a huge number of changes sinc ethe last one (abuot 80 I think) and it would be great if we could get an update. --Kumioko (talk) 19:24, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 00:09, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

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New snap

pliz. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:12, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Is there anyway we could get an SVN update please? --Kumioko (talk) 00:12, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Done. —Reedy 18:37, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

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Enabling AWB to the projects

Hello, Reedy/Archive 2010! I've tried to download the AWB to my pc, but it's not directing me to my home Wikipedia and it took me to the English Wikipedia instead. How am I going to change the project code? Want to make it work as my main wikipedia is swwp and not enwwp. Please help me. Yours,--Mwanaharakati(Longa) 14:11, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

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Enabling AWB to the projects

Hello, Reedy/Archive 2010! I've tried to download the AWB to my pc, but it's not directing me to my home Wikipedia and it took me to the English Wikipedia instead. How am I going to change the project code? Want to make it work as my main wikipedia is swwp and not enwwp. Please help me. Yours,--Mwanaharakati(Longa) 14:11, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

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AWB SVN

Greetings Reedy, would it be possible to get an SVN update of AWB? --Kumioko (talk) 19:35, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Will get it sorted, got a SSH key problem (need to generate variants of the keys in a different format). Currently working through some coursework, will have a look afterwards. —Reedy 19:46, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
No problem thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 19:48, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Credits file

Hi Reedy, I am assuming it was you who last changed the CREDITS file in svn. Could you do me a favor and add my name to the devs list there, as I forgot to do it several years back when I wrote the api (you can check all api files and the credits page - my name is there). Thanks much! --Yurik (talk) 17:54, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Done with pleasure - mw:Special:Code/MediaWiki/76664. No need to go through and verify your identity, I'm familiar with a lot of your work =) —Reedy 19:02, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
It seems the api project is alive and well :) Thanks much!!! --Yurik (talk) 19:17, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Would you like this backporting? :P It is indeed. It's getting more and more usage in wMF projects, so all is good =). Come back and help us sometime? =D —Reedy 19:40, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Sigh, wish I had time :( I was looking at some of the changes that have been done over the years... Boy has it grown! Feel like a proud father :) Btw, it seems that ApiMain.execute() function should return the getResultData() object - it costs almost nothing, but all the internal api calls code would be more readable - $result = $api->execute(). Plus it should also check for double-entry - have some flag to prevent accidental double-execution of the api object. Just my two cents :) --Yurik (talk) 09:43, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
mw:Special:Code/MediaWiki/76673 backported btw =). I'll have a look/poke later on for you about the other thing —Reedy 13:58, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! Let me know if my code suggestion makes sense. --Yurik (talk) 16:55, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

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AWB problem

Hi. I heard you are the developer of AWB, so i thought i might get more info from you about a problem i have for quite some time. I asked about it on several places, and i didn't get answer. Do you know what this is? i don't have an idea what the plugin would be, so i hope you can help me. Joeytje50 (talk) 20:12, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Against enwp? No idea. It's a rejection from the MW API for some reason or other. —Reedy 23:53, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

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